TAC and other activists interrupted the opening of the SA AIDS Conference to highlight the crisis of governance and legitimacy at the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) – we have lost all confidence in SANAC.

TAC Mpumalanga picketed outside Goederede Clinic because of its failure to provide adequate healthcare services to the community. Patients who use the clinic face excessive waiting times, poor staff attitudes, undignified and unhygienic toilets, and shortages of medicines and equipment.

The Fix the Patent Laws coalition welcomes the Competition Commission probe into the price of several cancer medicines in South Africa. This is a major victory in our struggle to ensure everyone can access the medicines they need to stay healthy and alive.

We lost gogo Prudence Nobantu Mabele. She died in 2017 with a CD4 count of 14. She was the first black woman to publicly disclose her HIV status in 1992 at 21 years old. She was one of the world’s most visible people living with HIV. And still the virus took her from us. She was one of 1 million-plus deaths that UNAIDS reports. AIDS is not over!